This is a project for 2020/1 Data Visualization class. The aim of this project is
to discover how power plants and its generation capacity interacts with society
and the impacts in different levels of human life.
We start with the definition of the power plants type presents in the project.
- Storage: Renewable. A type of hydro-power plant. It can store gravitational potential
energy by pumping water from lower to a higher elevation.
- Solar: Renewable. Uses sun radiation to generate electricity.
- Waste: Not exactly Renewable, but Sustainable. It's a kind of carbon-negative thermal
power plant. Uses wast to generate electricity.
- Wave and Tidal: Renewable. Uses tides/gravity to generate electricity.
- Oil: Non-Renewable. Uses oils to generate electricity.
- Biomass: Renewable. Uses biomass to generate electricity. Biomass is plant or animal
material.
- Hydro: Renewable. Uses water to generate electricity.
- Wind: Renewable. Uses wind to generate electricity.
- Cogeneration: Not exactly Renewable, but Sustainable. Uses some fuel (oil or solar for
ex.) to generate electricity.
- Petcoke: Non-Renewable. It's a kind of Oil Power Plant. Uses petcoke to generate
electricity.
- Gas: Non-Renewable. Uses natural gas to generate electricity.
- Coal: Non-Renewable. Uses coal to generate electricity.
- Nuclear: Not exactly Renewable, but Sustainable. It uses nuclear reactions to generate
electricity.
- Other: Any other kind of power plant.
The history of human development is also the history of CO2. Since the begging of the Industrial
Revolution, CO2 level in Earth's atmosphere is rising. We can notice some behaviour on CO2 over great history events.
We can also notice how the developed countries are slowly emitting less CO2 over the last two decades, probably because
in a change of a non-renewable energy mix to a renewable one.